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Organizational Design
A Step-by-Step Approach
Publisher: Cambridge University, 2006 , 235 pages
ISBN: 978-0-521-61733-8
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In today's volative business environment, organizational design is a serious challenge for any manager, whether of a multinational enterprise or a small team. This book sets out a step-by-step approach to designing an organization. Its action-oriented approach helps the reader to assess and re-design the complex organization of today, and plan for the information-rich organizations of tomorrow.
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- Step 1: Getting started
- Define the scope of the organization and assess its goals
- Introduction: The executive challenge of designing the organization
- Overview of this book
- The information-processing view
- Select an organization for analysis
- Define the scope of the organization
- Assess the organization's goals
- Diagnostic questions
- Misfits and balancing competing design dimensions
- Summary
- Glossary
- Where are you in the step-by-step approach?
- Define the scope of the organization and assess its goals
- Step 2: Strategy
- Strategy
- Introduction
- Reactor
- Defender
- Prospector
- Analyzer without innovation
- Analyzer with innovation
- Diagnostic questions
- Fit and misfits
- Summary
- Glossary
- Environment
- Introduction
- Calm environment
- Varied environment
- Locally stormy environment
- Turbulent environment
- Diagnostic questions
- Fit and misfits
- Summary
- Glossary
- Where are you in the step-by-step approach?
- Strategy
- Step 3: Structure
- The configuration and complexity of the firm
- Introduction
- Configuration
- Simple configuration
- Functional configuration
- Divisional configuration
- Matrix configuration
- Organizational complexity
- Blob
- Tall
- Flat
- Symmetric
- Diagnostic questions
- Fit and misfits
- Summary
- Glossary
- Distributed organizations
- Introduction
- Structures for spanning geography
- Global
- International
- Multi-domestic
- Transnational
- Structures for managing knowledge exchange
- Ad hoc communications
- Informated
- Cellular
- Network
- Diagnostic questions
- Fit and misfits
- Summary
- Glossary
- Where are you in the step-by-step approach?
- The configuration and complexity of the firm
- Step 4: Process and people
- Task design
- Introduction
- Orderly
- Complicated
- Fragmented
- Knotty
- Diagnostic questions
- Fit and misfits
- Summary
- Glossary
- People
- Introduction
- Shop
- Factory
- Laboratory
- Office
- Diagnostic questions
- Fit and misfits
- Summary
- Glossary
- Leadership and organizational climate
- Introduction
- Leadership style
- Maestro
- Manager
- Leader
- Producer
- Organizational climate
- Group
- Internal process
- Developmental
- Rational goal
- Diagnostic questions
- Fit and misfits
- Summary
- Glossary
- Where are you in the step-by-step approach?
- Task design
- Step 5: Coordination and control
- Coordination, control, and information systems
- Introduction
- Coordination and control systems
- Family
- Machine
- Market
- Clan or mosaic
- Information systems
- Event-driven
- Data-driven
- People-driven
- Relationship-driven
- Diagnostic questions
- Fit and misfits
- Summary
- Glossary
- Incentives
- Introduction
- Personal pay
- Skill pay
- Bonus-based
- Profit sharing
- Diagnostic questions
- Fit and misfits
- Summary
- Glossary
- Where are you in the step-by-step approach?
- Coordination, control, and information systems
- Applying the step-by-step approach in a dynamic world
- Design dynamics: managing change and multi-organizations
- Introduction
- Where are you in the step-by-step approach?
- What should you change first? Make changes within each step
- What should you change second? Make changes between steps
- Why change? Should we live with some misfits?
- What are the benefits of change?
- What are the difficulties of change?
- Managing misfits over time
- Multi-organization: multiple units of analysis
- The multi-organization step-by-step approach
- Joint venture
- Merger
- Strategic alliance or partnership
- Summary
- Glossary
- Design dynamics: managing change and multi-organizations
- Step 1: Getting started
Reviews:
Organizational Design
Rating: ******** (Very good)
A very interesting book that starts of with organizational design as an effect of the strategies a company adheres to (and manages to invent some new classifications as well).
I liked it.